(11-05-2024, 05:30 PM)FlickerOfLight Wrote: That hit home.
Great story. Very sad.
Whats Even more sad is that, I can relate.
Thanks for sharing this.
That relatability to Everyman is one of the elements that makes it a great story. I can relate to elements of it as well - I was thoroughly broken, and had to go through 4 wives before I found the one that was "home" and healing.
Actually, I can relate to more than that even - during that time of searching, I lived in a car for a year (until I graduated to "couch surfing" at friends houses), and at other times was so broke down that I had no car even, and had to dig cardboard out of dumpsters in order to lay it in the snow behind the dumpsters so I had a surface to sleep on that wouldn't soak through my clothes and freeze me solid.
I think most folks, if they dig deep enough, can find points of relatability in it.
Yeah, the story has some relatability in it, and that makes it a good one.
It's also fully told with broad, short strokes so that the tale is told without wearing out or overburdening the reader. Not everyone can write like that - me, for instance. I can't do it.
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